HugOps

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noun

A practice or ethos of showing empathy, support, and appreciation for people who operate or restore technical services, especially during an outage.

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Meanings

nounHugOps (uncountable)
  1. uncountablesocial mediacomputingA practice or ethos of showing empathy, support, and appreciation for people who operate or restore technical services, especially during an outage.

    For instance, the DevOps community is known for #HugOps—empathy sent via virtual hugs on Twitter when a particular service goes down and the community knows that the Ops team is having a rough day as a result.

    2018, Mary Thengvall, “Finding Your Community”, in The Business Value of Developer Relations, Berkeley, CA: Apress, →ISBN, page 114

Origin

From hug + ops, modelled on DevOps.

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APA

HugOps. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/HugOps

MLA

“HugOps.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/HugOps. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “HugOps,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/HugOps.

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